We analyze the impact of venture capital on firm performance ; more precisely, we investigate whether venture capital adds value to innovative French companies in terms of increasing their survival time. To this end, we use a hand-collected data set based on a sample of 139 French companies that...

Using a sample of 212 IPOs, this paper analyzes the impact of venture capital involvement on the survival time of French IPOs. We find that the ability of venture capitalists to improve the survival of companies is related to the duration of their investment. We show that venture capitalists do...

La littérature consacrée aux déterminants du capital-risque insiste sur la relation positive existant entre le montant des fonds investis dans cette activité et la situation prévalant sur les marchés financiers. Ceci n'est pas surprenant dans la mesure où des anticipations d'introductions...